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Sway of the Ottoman Empire on English identity in the long Eighteenth Century /
By focusing on eighteenth-century English textual representations of the Ottomans, we can observe the turning point in public perceptions, the moments when English subjects began to believe British imperial power was a reality rather than an aspiration.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
BRILL,
2012.
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| Colección: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
209. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Introduction: The 'Other' England: Ottoman Influence on English Identity; Part One; Chapter One Captivity, Apostasy, and Imperial Anxieties: English Fantasies and Fears of the Ottoman Influence; Chapter Two Arabic Castaways in the High and Low Churches: Debating English Protestantism in the Seventeenth-Century Ibn Tufayl Translations; Chapter Three The Ottoman Influence in Robinson Crusoe: Failures of English Imperial Identity; Part Two; Chapter Four Race and Romance: Othello, Oroonoko and the Decline of the Ottoman Influence.
- Chapter Five "I Am Not What I Am": Reimagining Shakespeare's Moor of Venice, 1603-1787Chapter Six Oriental Princes and Noble Slaves: Romance Models of Race in Oroonoko, 1688-1788; Conclusion: The Continued Anxieties of Empire: After the Ottoman Influence; Bibliography; Index.